Sean Dyche and I didn't discuss our punishment but my first Everton game was crazy

For a first game at Goodison Park, Brian Sorensen had the ultimate baptism of fire.

With the countdown having begun towards the final match at ‘The Grand Old Lady’ next year, this correspondent asked the manager of Everton women when he first attending a fixture at the first purpose-built ground in English football and was given quite an answer. Sorensen told the ECHO: “My first game was the crazy one when Frank Lampard was in charge and they turned the game around to beat Crystal Palace 3-2 when Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored the winner. I remember that game was special.”

As someone who appreciates the intensity of when Goodison is rocking – Manchester United legend Alex Ferguson, the Premier League’s most-successful manager admitted: “It is always a nightmare going there” – Sorensen is looking forward a keenly-contested Merseyside Derby on Sunday (kick-off 1pm) as his side look to do a Women’s Super League double over Liverpool. The Dane said: “There is an extra focus on the game but the preparation is the same for me. Of course the noise around it is bigger because it is a derby and it’s special with the rivalry between Everton and Liverpool for so long, it’s not the same as if we were playing Brighton or West Ham.

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“I love the intensity and passion of the derby, I wish that every game was like that but we need to bring our game too. You can’t replicate it 100% because of the history but you can replicate the intensity and the special feeling of being the blue side of the city.

“We have to make the most of these moments